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It has been a long process, but the management plan for the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is finally done. There is only one step left, the Secretary of Interior has to ink in his, or maybe now her, name on a letter of approval. So what lies ahead?
Read on for our ideas on what 2013 may bring for the large landscape movement, approaches to cultural landscapes and more.
Check out the new featured area post on Silos and Smokestacks, a landscape-scale conservation, preservation and education initiative in northeastern Iowa.
If ever there was a cultural landscape worthy of being a heritage corridor, it is this one – especially in the Low Country. Local and regional leaders fervently hoped national designation would bring badly needed public exposure, funding to preserve, interpret and market the corridor’s sites and communities, and greater clout when advocating for the preservation of fragile communities.
Talk about a cliffhanger! As of now, it looks like the funding for 12 of the 49 National Heritage Areas may be going over the edge as Congress so far has failed to act on any re-authorization bills. So – what happens next?
It has been a long process, but the management plan for the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is finally done. There is only one step left, the Secretary of Interior has to ink in his, or maybe now her, name on a letter of approval. So what lies ahead?
Read on for our ideas on what 2013 may bring for the large landscape movement, approaches to cultural landscapes and more.
Check out the new featured area post on Silos and Smokestacks, a landscape-scale conservation, preservation and education initiative in northeastern Iowa.
If ever there was a cultural landscape worthy of being a heritage corridor, it is this one – especially in the Low Country. Local and regional leaders fervently hoped national designation would bring badly needed public exposure, funding to preserve, interpret and market the corridor’s sites and communities, and greater clout when advocating for the preservation of fragile communities.
Talk about a cliffhanger! As of now, it looks like the funding for 12 of the 49 National Heritage Areas may be going over the edge as Congress so far has failed to act on any re-authorization bills. So – what happens next?